Word: robert
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...added session, which may end this week after Congress approves funds for government operations through the end of January, has not completely lacked examples of conservative in-fighting. Sens. Robert Dole, (R-Ks.) and James A. McClure (R-Id.), for example, have criticized the president-elect on his plans for federal belt-tightening...
Director Travis Preston, recognizing the work's nature, has staged the work simply by placing the three singers on a dark stage instead of at the front of a concert hall. The performance of the songs by Robert Honeysucker, David Ripley and Kim Scown is remarkably emotional for such somber music, and Honeysucker especially in the "Second Report on the Unknown Soldier" creates an affecting vocal performance with no need of a set of other theatrical assistance...
...Robert Cannon, president of an electrical workers local that represents many Westinghouse workers in New Jersey, accepts that reasoning. "Frankly, I welcome it," he says. "If we can bring in a robot here to do, say, the painting that a man does for $7, then we can move him to another job at $7.50 an hour. We say, 'Train our people for the skilled jobs that are in today's market...
...earlier era, hardly a soul would have dared impugn the veracity of the Crown for fear of losing his liberty, perhaps even his head. Not today, and not the proudly blue-collar Sunday Mirror. "We take great care to get our facts right," Editor Robert Edwards stiffly informed the palace in a letter last week. He declined to apologize...
...recourse to a wide range of materials was another aspect that, while not unique to Dada, influenced many later artists. Hannah Hoch, Raoul Hausmann and others made striking collages in which they jumbled and juxtaposed photographs from newspapers to create disturbing images of dissembled bodies in confused scales. Robert Rauschenberg's collages of the 1960s owe much to the Dada legacy. Duchamp's adoption of ordinary objects in sculpture is analogous to the selection of unadulterated common building materials in post-modern architecture. Frank Gehry's new house in California uses unfinished two-by-fours, asphalt and chain-link fencing...